Three winners will be announced on Sunday 6 August at the Babishai 2017 poetry
festival dinner. The winners will receive cash prizes, will be published in
the Mamba Journal and participate in selected literary festivals around the
continent.

The three judges for the Babishai 2017
Haiku Prize are Adjei Agyei-Baah, co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network, Mercy
Ituri, a landscape designer and award-winning haikuist from Kenya and Emmanuel
Kalusian, editor of the Mamba Journal.